Information on Washington State Geography

This page is specifically for Washington geography links. For more general geography links look at WSCSS general gography sites page.

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• CityTownInfo.com contains data such as population information and other almanac-style information, climate data, housing stats, and a variety of other useful profile information.However, the site's real strength is that it characterizes U.S. cities and towns by comparing their various attributes against other cities and towns in the country.This feature helps students extract meaning from data that might otherwise appear as just a blur of numbers.



• Shaded relief maps of Washington. Much of the information is about Eastern Washington, and there are many good links about the state available here.



• Archeology Week Information. Washington State's Archeology Week Information Home Page. Topics there include: Calendar of Events, Archaeological WWW Sites and Exhibits, Archaeological Etiquette, Archaeology: Suggested Reading, Careers in Archaeology, Archaeology Educational Curriculums, Archaeology Week Posters.



• Association of Washington Geographers (AWG),



• Boom Towns, Relic Hunters and Ghost Towns of Northeastern Washington.



• Bureau of Land Management. Their environmental education homepage.



• Bicycling in Washington. The Washington State Department of Transportation issued this bibliography as a guide to the bicycling community. Many other books and articles are available at local bookstores and libraries.



• Cascades Volcano Observatory. The Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) strives to serve the public interest by helping people to live knowledgeably and safely with volcanoes and other natural hazards including earthquakes, landslides, and debris flows, in the western United States and elsewhere in the world. Our goal is to provide accurate and timely information pertinent to the assessment, warning, and mitigation of natural hazards. We assess hazards before they occur by identifying and studying past hazardous events, their products, ages, and areas that would be affected by similar events in the future. We provide warnings during volcanic crises by intensively monitoring restless volcanoes and interpreting results in the context of current hazards assessments. We investigate and report on hazardous events after they occur to hone our assessment and prediction skills and to provide information for use in land-use management, emergency response plans, and public education.



• Clean Washington Center - state program to develop markets for recycled materials, providing technical assistance to manufacturers and producing reports and best practices on recycled materials use.



• Create Your Own Best Places Create Your Own Best Places List from Money Magazine. Here you can specify which of as many as 78 criteria matter to you in choosing a city -- and then get a list of the 300 largest U.S. metro areas ranked accordingly.



• Columbia Basin Research. This site allows the user to look at real time data and forecasts of the Columbia River fisheries based on research from the U. of W.



• Columbia Gorge. A tour around the gorge.



• County Presentation



• Department of Ecology. The mission of the Department of Ecology is to protect, preserve and enhance Washington's environment, and promote the wise management of our air, land and water for the benefit of current and future generations.



• Dungeness River Natural History Center. An interpretive center to help young and old enjoy and understand the natural history of the Olympic Peninsula, particularly the Dungeness River and its watershed. The site includes 16 acres of river-corridor woodland and 1400 ft of riverbank frontage.



• History Link -- HistoryLink is an evolving online encyclopedia of Seattle and King County history. HistoryLink includes several type of content: authoritative, searchable database essays; visual histories; anecdotal "People's Histories;" selected maps and documents; directories of local museums and heritage groups; and a large and growing roster of links to other historical Websites.



• Hubble Telescope Project. Live From the Hubble Space Telescope (LHST) is the latest chance to peak behind the scenes at NASA. LHST will follow the folks who research with and operate the world's most powerful optical telescope. But this time, we won't just be watching....we'll be participating in the mission. For the first time ever, the Space Telescope Science Institute has dedicated three full orbits (~4.5 hours) of telescope time towards the K-12 community. In December, students and educators debated what object to observe with our precious HST time. Together we reached a consensus that Pluto and Neptune would be our targets. When the data comes down, it will belong to K-12 students. In addition, Professor Reta Beebe donated an additional orbit from her scheduled research for us to study Jupiter. Now, the Hubble Space Telescope crew is busily preparing for these orbits.



• Issaquah Historical Society



• Kirkland newspapers and history.



• Mount Rainier Centennial



• Mount Rainier National Park



• Mount St. Helens. These pages are provided to help you to learn and keep up with current events at Mount St. Helens. You will also be able to discover what happened before, during and after the awesome eruption of May 18, 1980. Sponsored in part by, the Educational Service District 112, the National Forest Service, the crew of Volcano World and NASA.



• National GAP Analysis. Gap Analysis, is currently being applied within 28 states using GIS. Gap focuses on maintaining viable populations of native species in their natural habitats. The analysis involves the use of satellite imagery to create a current vegetation map for a state, on which the distribution of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals are overlaid, as well as a map of land ownership.



• National Parks



• North Cascades National Park



• North Olympic Peninsula. The North Olympic Peninsula Visitor and Convention Bureau invites you to discover the magic that is the North Olympic Peninsula. Here, you'll find spectacular scenery...goose-bump-beautiful ocean beaches, North America's only ancient rain forests, glacier-capped mountain peaks and alpine meadows. Explore them!



• Olympic Peninsula. The Olympic Peninsula encompasses unspoiled ocean beaches, dense rain forest, wide-open rolling farmland, pristine mountain wilderness and a number of unique communities dotting its perimeters. An ideal place to visit and a wonderful place to live, the peninsula has something to offer everyone.



• Olympic National Park. Your official guide to this beautiful part of Washington.



• Olympic National Park



• Olympic Peninsula



• Online Highways



• Pass Reports and Ferry Schedules



• Puget Sound interactive map



• Regional: U.S.States:Washington Yahoo!



• Smart and Smarter Program: The Geography Of Washington is a Washington state geography curriculum that provides teachers with an interactive and engaging way to instruct students about the many wonders of Washington state geography. This curriculum is based upon the Washington State Academic Learning Requirements. And a very special thanks goes to Robert Bowman, the creator of this program. The graphics you see at the top of these pages were given to this website by Robert.



• Skagit Valley
  Journal of History and Folklore. Covering the river from British Columbia
  to the San Juans and counties of Skagit, Whatcom, Island and San Juan Dedicated
  to the principle of random acts of historical kindness. You can get a preview
  copy of the Journal also.



• Travel in Washington



• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has launched six new World Wide Web servers. This effort supports their goal of sharing data and information. These cover: D.C. Booth National Historic Fish Hatchery, Law Enforcement, Migratory Bird Management Office, North American Waterfowl and Wetlands Office, Region 5 (Northeast Region), Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge.



• Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Seattle. The Washington State Convention and Trade Center's award winning design dramatically integrates the vitality of an international port city with the natural beauty of the Evergreen state.



• Washington State Geographic Information Council.



• Washington State: Online Travel Information



• Washington Sites of Interest



• Washington National Parks.



• Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission



• Washington State Pesticide Page. This page provides access to current information in Washington State related to pesticides. It will be useful to people searching for state pesticide resource personnel, people seeking a state pesticide applicator license, people maintaining a pesticide applicator license, industry representatives supporting pesticide educational courses and any other people interested in current pesticide related issues. The primary focus is to provide access for Washington state residents to training information and delivery of current topics. However, it may be useful for browsers from across the nation to access archived training documents and newsletters as well as linking to other pesticide related databases.



• Washington Maps



• A great resource for Washington State Maps and every map of the World and US on this web site. Excellent for teachers and students in teaching. It has News Maps, History Maps, Outline maps, State Maps, and Lesson Plans and many others. An excellent resource.



• Washington State - Suite 101.com